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    Jan 4, 2011, 01:14 PM
    NJ law about how much notice when leaving an apartment before lease is completed?
    Does anyone know what is the time requirement needed to be given to landlord to break lease.
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    Jan 4, 2011, 01:31 PM

    You can't simply break a lease by giving notice. If it was a poor choice of words and mean AFTER the lease ends and you go month to month... its typically 30 days.
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    Jan 4, 2011, 01:44 PM
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    Thx. Smoothy. Anyone know the NJ Law re: this issue. Very unhappy with apartment complex. Apt. was completely dirty &, had to postpone the move-in date an add'l day because closet doors had to be replaced. Now we find out complex infested w/bedbugs.
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    Jan 4, 2011, 01:54 PM

    Didn't you do a walkthrough of the unit BEFORE you signed the lease? In the days I was living in apartments I never signed a lease until I saw a move-in ready unit that I would actually be renting, not a promise it would be ready at some future time. Is this a real infestation of YOUR unit... or just a rumour other units are affected. It matters. As long as they treat the infestation when its reported its not a valid reason to break a lease. Sorry to say this, but buyers remorse isn't a legal defense to lease breaking. If you had no heat or water... appliances didn't work, or if they refused to treat infestations, the roof leaked etc... and they refused to fix them then there would be a valid reason.
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    Jan 4, 2011, 04:22 PM

    First, please don't use the Comments feature to post followups. Use the Answer options instead.

    I'm wondering where you are getting the idea that you can just break a lease. A lease is a contract. The only time you can break a lease is if the conditions of the lease are broken. Now if they don't do anything about the bedbug issue you may have grounds.
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    Jan 4, 2011, 08:55 PM

    There is no time to break a lease before the lease is over.

    You can not break the lease. If the complex is in default of some part of the lease, you can move and try to fight it in court if they don't agree.

    But you will have to wait till the lease is up to move out without cause where the landlord is in default.
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